Case studies Imagery and case studies of weather phenomena and environmental events observed by EUMETSAT's fleet of weather satellites. Sort Refine results Categories Atmospheric Composition Meteosat Sentinel Satellites Land Ocean Weather Data Metop Tags SEVIRI Sentinel-3 ASCAT AVHRR GOME-2 Meteosat First Generation (MFG) Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) MVIRI OLCI SLSTR SRAL Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Africa Copernicus Metop-C NOAA IODC Metop-A EPS Europe Asia S America Himawari GOES Terra/Aqua SNPP MODIS VIIRS ABI AHI Polar Indian Ocean Date 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 SHOW ALL Sort by Start Date Order Ascending Descending 16 results Case study 15-22 March 2022 Widespread dust intrusion across Europe Continental-wide plume of Saharan dust across Europe in March 2022. Case study 22 May 2021, 18:00 UTC to 23 May, 17:15 UTC Destructive eruption of volcano Nyiragongo In the evening of 22 May 2021 volcano Nyiragongo started to erupt, threatening life and property. Case study 17 May 2021 02:30-13:00 UTC and 18 May 01:00 UTC Tropical Cyclone Tauktae Tropical Cyclone Tauktae made landfall in the Indian state of Gujarat on 17 May 2021. Case study 16-28 February and 2-11 March 2021 Mount Etna very active in February & March 2021 Regular Etna eruptions observed in February and March 2021. Case study 18 April 2020 00:00 UTC-22 April 23:00 UTC Extensive DIBS in the Deformation Zone In April 2020, pockmarked DIBS cloud, produced by a cyclone over the Mediterranean Sea, entered an elongated deformation zone. Case study 22-27 February 2020, Various times Dust over the Canaries Record dense dust over the Canary Islands originates near the African coast. Case study 5 and 6 January 2019 03:00–13:00 UTC Outflow of winter smog over north Indian Ocean On 6 January 2019 Indian winter smog spread over the north Indian Ocean. Case study January–December 2019 Image Library top ten for 2019 A look at our most popular case studies from 2019. Case study 26 July 2018 04:00 UTC to 3 August 06:00 UTC Dense dust outbreak across Arabian peninsula Summer Shamal pushed dense dust across the Arabian peninsula and over the Arabian Sea in late summer 2018. Case study 6-15 May 2018 Transport of African-Arabian dust to Pakistan & north India In May 2018 dust clouds from Africa and the Arabian peninsula travelled as far as India. Case study 20 March 2018 12:00 UTC–26 March 12:00 UTC Long-range dust outbreak over Africa and Greece In late March 2018 a cold outbreak drove Saharan dust from the Atlas mountains down to the south-west coast of Africa and on to Greece. Case study 7 March 2018 02:00–13:00 UTC Sentinel-3 'sees' black smoke from ship fire In early March 2018 Sentinel-3 'saw' black smoke from a container ship fire, thanks to sunglint from the ocean surface. Load More
